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The Lisbon Treaty has introduced a new Article 197 TFEU highlighting the importance of cooperation between Member States in assuring effective implementation of EU law. New approaches are emerging at the same time concerning the coordination of regulatory actors and networks between authorities at all levels of government. Moreover, EU agencies have been transferred more and more functions over the last decades ranging from delivering support to the Union’s decision-making process by pooling available expertise, to adopting individual decisions applying agreed EU standards, and supporting the implementation of Union policies. At the same time the delegation of powers to agencies is still being overshadowed by the Meroni doctrine of the 1950s. Despite being mentioned as potential sources of reviewable final acts in Article 263(1) TFEU EU agencies are not recognised as recipients of delegation of powers. The practical reality of EU policy making however is far more complex. 

This workshop will address these two dimensions from both a practical and an academic perspective.

- What must Member States do to improve their administrative capacity to implement EU law?
- What can we expect from new forms of “horizontal” interaction in terms of practical effective-     ness and the quality of EU governance?
- What are the potentials, limits and risks involved in continued “agencification”?

For the lunchtime debate we will have the honor to welcome two invited speakers one of which is Frank Manuhutu from the European Aviation Safety Agency (Cologne, DE), currently chairman of the Inter Agency Legal Network to reflect about the perspectives for policy implementation and the role of EU agencies after Lisbon.

Deadline for application

Applicants are invited to send an abstract (max. 250 words) including name, affiliation and contact details to Michael Kaeding by January 16, 2012.
Candidates will be notified about the outcome of the selection process by January 20, 2012.
After the LISBOAN event, a selected set of participants will be asked to submit a full workshop paper for publication in a special issue of EIPAscope (see http://publications.eipa.eu/en/eipascope/).

Reimbursement of expenses

The LISBOAN (Linking Interdisciplinary Integration Studies by Broadening the European Network) covers travel and accommodation costs for participants of LISBOAN partner institutions. Please turn to the workshop organisers for additional information.

Organisers

Dr  Edward Best, Head of Unit
LISBOAN work package leader
on the institutional architecture

Dr  Michael Kaeding, Senior Lecturer